friable

  • 21friable — adjective technical friable rocks or soil are easily broken into very small pieces or into powder …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 22friable — /ˈfraɪəbəl / (say fruyuhbuhl) adjective easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock. {Latin friābilis} –friability /fraɪəˈbɪləti/ (say fruyuh biluhtee), friableness, noun …

  • 23friable — adj., meuble, (ep. de la terre) : veûran / voran, na, e (Saxel / Alex), vouro, a, e (Manigod) ; fin, na, e (Albanais). A1) friable (en général) : friyâblo, a, e (Villards Thônes) || brio (Sixt). E. : Cassant, Creux, Troué, Vide …

    Dictionnaire Français-Savoyard

  • 24friable — adj. easily crumbled. Derivatives: friability n. friableness n. Etymology: F friable or L friabilis f. friare crumble …

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  • 25friable deposits — puriosios nuosėdos statusas T sritis chemija apibrėžtis Nuosėdos, sudarytos iš smulkių, nesukibusių dalelių. atitikmenys: angl. friable deposits rus. рыхлый осадок …

    Chemijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

  • 26friable —   lit. easily crumbled. In geography, used when describing soils …

    Geography glossary

  • 27friable — Synonyms and related words: breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, delicate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, lacerable, pulverizable, pulverulent, scissile,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 28friable — fri|a|ble Mot Pla Adjectiu invariable …

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  • 29friable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crumbly (see powderiness). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. brittle, fragile, breakable; see crumbly , fragile . See Synonym Study at fragile . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. crumbly, fragile, powdery …

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  • 30friable — fri|a|ble [ fraıəbl ] adjective TECHNICAL easily broken into smaller pieces: CRUMBLY …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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